Iraqi Kurdistan Region
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Iran, KRG discuss developing ties
Tehran, IRNA – Iranian Consul-General to Erbil Nasrollah Rashnoodi and leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Masoud Barzani have reviewed expansion of bilateral relations.
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Kurdistan Region PM, Iranian consul discuss bilateral cooperation
Baghdad, IRNA – The Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Masrour Barzani, has met with the Iranian Consul General in Erbil, Nasrollah Rashvandi, where they discussed bilateral relations and the importance of strengthening the regional government of Kurdistan.
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'Israel's attack on Iran did not affect KRG trade delegation's activities'
Ahvaz, IRNA – The Zionist regime's attack on Iran did not affect the activities and commercial negotiations of the high-level delegation from the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, said the governor of Khuzestan.
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Pezeshkian: Reconciliation key to enhancing security in human societies
Tehran, IRNA – Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has said that reconciliation, integrity and mutual respect of rights is key to promoting security and tranquility in human societies.
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Kurdistan president: Iraqi region’s soil won’t be used to harm Iran
Tehran, IRNA – Nechervan Barzani, the President of Iraq's Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq, has said that Kurdistan’s soil will never be used to harm the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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President Pezeshkian terms Iran-Iraqi Kurdistan ties good
Tehran, IRNA – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has characterized the relations between Iran and the Iraqi Kurdistan Region as positive, emphasizing efforts to enhance bilateral ties.
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Pezeshkian to visit Iraq’s Kurdistan region in first such trip since 1979
Tehran, IRNA--President Masoud Pezeshkian, who is in Baghdad on his first foreign trip since taking office, will become the first Iranian president to visit the Kurdistan Region of Iraq since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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Pezeshkian lauds Iraqi Kurdistan Region for efforts to improve ties
Tehran, IRNA – Newly-elected Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, while appreciating the hospitality and kindness of the Iraqi Kurdistan toward Arbaeen pilgrims, has hailed officials from the semi-autonomous region for their efforts to enhance relation with the Islamic Republic.
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Head of Iraqi Kurdistan Region wishes success for Pezeshkian
Tehran, IRNA - In a phone call with the president-elect of the Islamic Republic, the head of the Kurdistan region of Iraq said that the relations between the two sides are based on deep and long-standing cultural, historical and religious ties.
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Ambassador to Iraq: Iran's ties with KRG are deep-rooted, growing
Baghdad, IRNA - The ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Iraq, in a meeting with Masoud Barzani, head of the Democratic Party of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, said that the relations between Iran and the Kurdistan Region are old, deep-rooted and growing.
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Bagheri meets with head of Patriotic Union Party of Iraqi Kurdistan Region
Tehran, IRNA - During his visit to Iraqi Kurdistan Region, Iran's Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Bagheri Kani met and talked with the head of the Patriotic Union Party of Kurdistan Region.
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Iran: Expanding economic ties necessary for stability in region
Erbil, IRNA – Iran’s acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani said that the stability and security of the region depends on bilateral and multilateral cooperation, adding that developing economic cooperation is a requirement for stability in the region.
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Iran’s acting FM meets Kurdistan Region’s PM
Erbil, IRNA – Iran’s acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani met Friday with top officials of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region on the second day of his visit to the neighboring country.
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Barzani's Iran visit will help improve Tehran-Erbil ties: KRG envoy
Tehran, IRNA - A recent visit by Nechirvan Barzani, the President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), to Iran is expected to enhance political, security, and economic cooperation between Tehran and Erbil, according to the KRG's representative to the Islamic Republic.
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Iran’s relations with Iraqi Kurdistan unbreakable: Amirabdollahian
Tehran, IRNA – The Iranian foreign minister has described the Islamic Republic’s relations with the Kurdistan Region of Iraq as old, friendly and unbreakable both at official level as well as in other spheres.
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Iran’s secretary of SNSC meets head of KRG in Tehran
Ali Akbar Ahmadian, the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran met with President of Iraq's Kurdistan Nechirvan Barzani on May 6, 2024.
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Iraq's Kurdistan will not be used to harm Iran security: Barzani
Tehran, IRNA - President of Iraq's Kurdistan Nechirvan Barzani has vowed the autonomous region will not be used as a platform to harm the security of Iran.
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President of Iraq's Kurdistan meets Ayatollah Khamenei
Tehran, IRNA - Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has received President of Iraq's Kurdistan Region Nechirvan Barzani in Tehran.
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President of Kurdistan Region of Iraq Meets Iran FM
Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Nichervan Barzani, who has traveled to Tehran, met and talked with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian on Monday afternoon (May 6).
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Top Iranian, Iraqi security officials discuss bilateral issues on phone
Tehran, IRNA – Top security officials of Iran and Iraq have discussed relations between the two countries and their joint efforts to protect the security of both sides.
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Iraqi Kurdistan marks 4th anniversary of Gen. Soleimani's martyrdom
Tehran, IRNA – Iraqis in Sulaymaniyah province have commemorated the fourth anniversary of the martyrdom of Iran’s anti-terror icon General Qassem Soleimani, Iraq’s Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and their companions, who were assassinated in a US strike in Baghdad in 2020.
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‘Iran-Iraq border stability to increase if bilateral pact becomes law’
Tehran, IRNA – Iran’s Top Security Official Ali-Akbar Ahmadian and senior Iraqi lawmaker Mohsen Ali Akbar Namdar Al-Mandalawi have discussed a security pact between the two neighbors. Ahmadian has said that the passage of the pact as a law by the Iraqi parliament could be a key step in promoting security at the borders of the two countries.
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Blast heard at US military base in northern Iraq: Report
Tehran, IRNA – An explosion has been heard at a US military base near Erbil International Airport in Iraq’s northern Kurdistan region, the Beirut-based Arabic news network Al Mayadeen reported on Saturday.
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Iraq to fully enforce security pact with Iran: Amirabdollahian
Tehran, IRNA- Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has said Iraq will fully execute a security agreement with Iran in the coming days to ensure terrorist groups in the border areas pose no threat to the Islamic Republic.
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Iran, Iraqi KRG discuss bolstering ties
Baghdad, IRNA – Iran’s Ambassador to Iraq, Mohammad-Kazem Al-e Sadeq, has held meetings with officials from the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to discuss strengthening Tehran's ties with Iraq and the Kurdistan region.
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Airstrikes to resume if Iraq fails to disarm terrorists: Iran’s top general
Tehran, IRNA - Iran’s top general has warned that the Islamic Republic will resume its cross-border airstrikes to target anti-Iran terrorist groups in northern Iraq if the central government in Baghdad fails to disarm them by a previously-set deadline.
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Erbil ready to open new border crossing with Iran to boost trade: Official
Urmia, IRNA – The governor general of Erbil Governorate in northern Iraq has announced the readiness of his province to open a new border crossing with Iran’s city of Oshnavieh to boost trade between the two countries.
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Some 1.2 mln health tourists visited Iran in year to March
Orumiyeh, IRNA - The Iranian deputy foreign minister for economic diplomacy has announced that the country hosted some 1.2 million health tourists during the past Iranian calendar year that ended on March 20, 2023.
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Kurdish groups contribute to attack on Isfahan facility
Tehran, IRNA – The parts of the Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) used in an attack on a military workshop in Isfahan have been transported into Iran by some anti-Revolution Kurdish militant groups deployed in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
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Fact-checking of CNN report: Is rape used to quell protests in Iran?
Tehran, IRNA – American news channel CNN on November 21 published a report that it described as investigative, claiming that “Iran’s security forces use rape to quell protests”. The Islamic Republic News Agency has conducted research to verify claims made in the report and determine whether the American news network has offered evidence to back up those claims. First, we take a brief look at the CNN report.